Paleontological Illustration
- Media:
- Coquille-board, pencil
- Target Audience:
- Scientific Audience
- Format:
- Supervisor:
- Prof. Dave Mazierski, Biomedical Communications, University of Toronto
- Purpose:
- This illustration was based on observational drawings at an exhibit at the Royal Museum of Ontario.
PROCESS WORK
Reconstructed skull line drawing in Adobe Illustrator based on Museum exhibit and paleontological research findings.
References:
Russel, Dale A. Systematics and Morphology of American Mosasaurs. 1967(Print), 2003 (Electronic). Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University.
Cuthbertson, Robin S., Jordan C. Mallon, Nicolas E. Campione, and Robert B. Holmes. A new species of mosasaur (Squamata: Mosasauridae) from the Pierre Shale (lower Campanian) of Manitoba.
LeBlanc, Aaron, R. H., Michael W. Caldwell, and Johan Lindgren. 2013. Aquatic Adaptation, Cranial Kinesis, and the Skull of the Mosasaurine Mosasaur Plotosaurus bennisoni. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 33(2):349-362.